Meeting and companionship – By Fr Dimitrios Bokustranslated

MEETING AND GATHERING Father Dimitriou Boku

Saint Luke the physician (October 18) also played a leading role and a work equal to that of the twelve apostles, since he too was named an apostle, from the wider group of the seventy apostles, as well as an evangelist.

As he himself assures himself, he belonged to those who watched "everything from above", that is, he too was an eyewitness and an earwitness to what Jesus said and did during his three-year public activity, from his baptism in the Jordan to his Ascension to the Mount of Olives, "from the baptism of John to the day he was taken from us". In particular, this apprenticeship made him a fervent "witness of his resurrection", contributing as a valuable fruit his two holy and exemplary written inspired texts, the Gospel according to Luke and the Acts of the Apostles (Luke 1, 1. Acts 1, 22).

But Christ also rewarded the consistency of Luke's apostolic attitude in a unique way. He appeared to him resurrected on the first day of the Resurrection, before he even appeared to the close circle of his eleven disciples. This happened during that well-known course of Luke...